Renesas announced today that it has officially separated from Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, and that it has “commenced operations as the world's leading System LSI company.”

Last October, the semiconductor divisions of Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Ltd. announced that they had reached an agreement to form a joint venture that would establish a new, semiconductor company to be called Renesas Technology Corp. The plan was to move both companies' semiconductor operations to the new company, including microcomputer, logic, analog and discrete devices and memory (flash memory, SRAM etc.) with the exception of DRAMs. “RENESAS” stands for “Renaissance Semiconductor for Advanced Solutions,” the companies said.

Among its many semiconductor products, Renesas manufactures the highly popular SuperH RISC embedded processors, is the owner of the SuperH tradmark, and is a major investor in SuperH Inc., which was formed by Hitachi and STMicroelectronics two years ago to “boost the proliferation of SuperH cores in embedded microprocessor systems.”

 
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